Ryan Murphy Has 'Many Things to Say' Following Erik Menendez's Critiques of “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story”

On Friday, Sept. 20, Erik trashed the portrayals of himself and Lyle, claiming that the show didn't depict the trauma and violence they experienced in their childhood accurately

Ryan Murphy is addressing Erik Menéndez's statement against his latest project, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story.

The executive producer and creator of the Netflix true crime drama, 58, defended his interpretation of Erik, 53, and his 56-year-old brother Lyle Menéndez and their crimes after the former slammed the streamer for its portrayal of their lives.

When asked how he reacted to the statement, Murphy told Entertainment Tonight that he had "many things to say about that."

"I think it's interesting that [Erik] issued a statement without having seen the show," he continued. "I know he hasn't seen the show in prison. I hope he does see the show. I think he sees the work that Cooper Koch [the actor who plays him] did."

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The Emmy Award-winning writer admitted that it must be "really, really hard" to see "your life up on screen."

"If you watch the show, I would say 60 to 65 percent of our show, in the scripts and in the film form, center around the abuse and what they claim happened to them," he explained. "We do it very carefully, and we give them their day in court, and they talk openly about it, we present the facts from their point of view."

Murphy revealed that he and his team spent three years researching the Menéndez brothers and their story. He added that writing about sexual abuse for television and writing from "all points of view" can be controversial.

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In 1989, Erik (Koch) and Lyle (played by Nicolas Alexander Chavez) were convicted of killing their parents, José and Mary Louse "Kitty" Menéndez. The brothers claimed that they acted in self-defense after allegedly enduring years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse from their parents.

Erik and Lyle were eventually both found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to murder. They were sentenced to life in prison without parole and are currently serving time.

While the series has been seen as controversial for its depictions of the siblings, Murphy told ET that he and his team took a "Rashomon kind of approach."

"There were four people involved in that. Two of them are dead and two of them are alive," he continued. "But what about the parents? We had an obligation to storytellers to also try and put in their perspective, based on our research, which we did."

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On Friday, Sept. 20, Erik trashed the portrayals of himself and Lyle, claiming that the show didn't depict the trauma and violence they experienced in their childhood accurately.

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“I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant in the show," Erik began. "I can only believe they were done so on purpose. It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent.”

He continued: “It is sad for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths several steps backward — back through time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma differently than women."

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story is now streaming on Netflix.

If you suspect child abuse, call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.

If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual abuse, text "STRENGTH" to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.

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